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...outlawed drugs growing on public lands. Federal officials are especially concerned about public safety in California's parks and forests because heavily armed Mexican crime networks have planted vast marijuana plantations in remote areas. Did the opium farm represent a new product line--the first step in a domestic heroin-processing operation? Unlikely. As it turned out, the three men found at the scene were Asian. (No one has yet been arrested; one suspect, who had a brown substance on his hands and scratches on his face, was detained nearby but released because of insufficient evidence.) Law-enforcement officials believe...
...much of Central Asia, contemporary Karachi is also a product of the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and the jihad declared by much of the Muslim world in response. To fund their campaign against the Russian occupiers, Afghan warlords used Pakistan as a transshipment point for heroin and Karachi as a major point of export. Paid for in part by those narco-dollars were the vast shipments of small arms and Stinger missiles passing the other way through Karachi before being loaded onto trucks bound for Peshawar and eventually camels headed for Afghanistan's interior. Those drugs...
...convicted on 59 counts of conspiracy and fraud in 1985 for using his articles to make money in the stock market; and the Washington Post, which had to return the 1981 Pulitzer Prize won by reporter Janet Cooke for the haunting story of Jimmy, the 8-year-old heroin addict who turned out to be nothing more than a ghost from her typewriter...
...much as twice the amount of North Korea's regular exports, or more than $1 billion. Last week, the world was reminded of the scope of North Korea's black economy with the arrest of 30 North Korean sailors in Australia on charges of smuggling $48 million worth of heroin...
...take an unflinching look at the lives of working girls, Bar Girls also manages more than a few lingering looks up their skirts. Pleased with the antidrug message, censors allowed an unprecedented amount of skin and sin. Sure, there are gritty scenes of vomiting in toilets and a heroin overdose, but there are also two catfights (one in mud), girls in bikinis jumping up and down, and Vietnam's first government-approved topless shot. "It's true I focused on the entertainment value of the film," says director and co-writer Le Hoang. "If your film is not appealing enough...